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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA thought-provoking, principled, clear-eyed chronicle of the culture, politics, and economic choices that have landed America where it is today - with irresponsible economic bullies and corporations with immense wealth and lobbying power on top, demagogues on the rise, an...

From an 'indispensable voice on China' (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progressAmerica used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through...

A spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNEW STATESMAN, ATLANTIC AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A brilliant tale of greed, paranoia and hubris...

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day"Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. A crisp and balanced account."―Christopher Harding, The TelegraphKorea has a long, riveting history―it is also a divi...

An urgent manifesto to defeat authoritarianism, by one of the world's great progressive voicesToday, Trump's USA is a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires. As inequalities grow starker and authoritarianism takes hold, people are deprived of both the basic necessi...

What amounts to a war crime today? This timely book by world-renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson KC investigates the evidence and how attacks on free societies can be deterred.We are, today, exposed to evidence of thousands of war crimes. Residential buildings bombed and burning in Ukrai...

A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth TransformedFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter - 'the historian of China' (Spectator) - a commanding new history of China...

A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait – were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known offic...

A new collection of literary criticism and brilliant insights from one of the giants of contemporary thinkingWho owns language? In , Ngugi wa Thiong'o presents a series of essays that build on his vast wealth of work on language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. I...

brings together political commentary and analysis that offers a thought-provoking vision of Palestine and the wider region and responds to the martyred Palestinian writer Basel Al-Araj’s call: “Keep Palestine firmly within your sight."Read translated essays by Mousa Alsadah, Sari Orabi, and Nida...

‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry‘Mind-blowing..Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Beltonâ...

An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in EuropeA captivating portrait of number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraord...

'If you've got the political bug - you will love this book. If you don't, this book will give it to you.'KATE JENKINS, Chair Australian Sports CommissionConversations with the chiefs of staff to world leaders ranging from Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris and John Howard to Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair an...

An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – with a new foreword to the 2024 editionHow to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism a...

'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find' Barbara DemickIn 1962, Edward Wong's father, disillusioned with Communism, fled China for Hong Kong and later the USA. From t...

In this urgent book, we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world's futureAn urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters - for China, the West and everyone's future.When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao's Communists won...

Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There they took 26 hostages...

The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle — and the renewed threat of invasion by China.Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’, Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area sm...

From one of our foremost public intellectuals, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramificationsMemory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe's civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and mor...

A short anatomy of neoliberalism that shatters its founding myths and points the way to an alternative systemThis book is dynamite' - Caroline Lucas - 'Fantastic' - Mark RuffaloWe live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives- our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisu...

Who works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing journey into a hidden world from an all-star team of writers and storytellersThe government is a vast, complex system that citizens pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It's also our shared res...

A hard-hitting and robust analysis of the war in Gaza - and the world's response - from one of the most highly respected intellectuals of the left.Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication...

The first political history of the Second World War, of building the Grand Alliance to defeat Hitler, by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing HitlerA landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing HitlerAfter the f...

''This disturbing book is timely, relevant and important'' Sir Ian KershawFrom the bestselling author of THE HOLOCAUST, a groundbreaking narrative history of the motivation and mentality behind the Nazis and their supporters.How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants...